Special Training for Drivers of Vehicles Carrying Radioactive Materials in Germany

Year
1992
Author(s)
Klaus Ridder - Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, Bonn (Germany)
File Attachment
979.PDF1.56 MB
Abstract
No rule, not even the best, serves its purpose if it is not complied with just because it is not known. This was recognized after a tank-truck accident in Spain. There a driver was driving his overfilled tank truck past a campground when, due to the absence of ullage, the liquid's expansion ruptured the tank shell. The released gas ignited. The exploding gas cloud killed over 200 people. The accident caused politicians in Germany, and indeed all over Europe, to think about training of dangerous goods drivers.